Lesson Plan: Our Classroom Book (4/7)

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Applying What You Have Learned

On the following pages are lesson plans that can be used to integrate Building Community Through Circle Time in your program planning. The lesson plans are intended to be an optional resource that you may adapt for use in your classroom.  The worksheets at the bottom of each lesson plan are part of the required coursework (not optional).

Please read each lesson plan carefully and then answer the question at the bottom of the page.

Our Classroom Book

Age Group: 

• Toddlers

* This lesson plan can be adapted for preschoolers.

Objectives:

• Children will see themselves as a member of a classroom community.
• Children will expand their socialization skills by interacting with children they do not usually play with.
• Children will understand that though everyone is different, they all have things they like to do in common. 

CDA Competency Standard:  
III.9.3a
Candidate promotes children’s sense of belonging in the classroom community.
a)      Encourages children’s social interactions

Materials: 

• Cut pieces of colorful straws
• One pipe cleaner per child

Procedure: 

1. Take a picture of each child in your class (and the teachers) participating in daily activities.
2. Print off a picture of each child doing a different activity and affix to a blank page. Below the picture write who is in the picture and what they are doing.
3. Laminate or use contact paper on each page so that the picture and text will be safe from little fingers.
4. Bind the book using staples or by using a hole punch and string.
5. Read the book to the children at group time and then place it in the library for children to enjoy.

​NOTE: Each new student should be added to the book and introduced within the first week of attendance.

Assessment: 

• Read the book to the children and have them name or gesture toward the children they see. Identifying their friends gives them a sense of community because they begin to understand that these are all the people in THEIR class. Note which of the children do not know their friends. Set up opportunities for those children to engage in an activity with the children they did not name or seem to know.
• While reading the book ask the children what activity is being shown and if they have done that activity too. When you connect what the children in the book are doing, to what the other children have done it supports diversity and inclusiveness. Meaning, we are all different, but we like to do the same things. 

Extension:

• Place pictures of the children in the learning or activity center the picture was taken. 

Click on the photos to enlarge.

This is assignment 4 of 7.

Worksheet

Building Community Through Circle Time *  Check for Understanding * Page 15 (4/7)

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